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E. S. MAY.

(No Model.)

CALENDAR.

Patented Jan. 8, 1889.

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EDXVARD S. MAY, OF \VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 395,709, dated January 8, 1889. Application filed April 18, 1838. $e1'ial No. 271,078. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. MAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in. the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendars; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of the invention is to interpose a screen or curtain between the eye of the observer and the expired weeks of any current month on the face of a calendar.

Calendars in common use are composed of twelve leaves-one for each monthbound together at their upper portion and attached by stitches, gum, or eyelets to a stiff backing, and the leaf forming the current month is torn away at the close of the month, exposing the month next in order. In use the ordii'lary calendar requires to be studied for accuracy after the first week, the eye run up and down and across to fix the day of the week to correspond with the figures required, the weeks gone by added to those below, causing a difficulty of adjusting the eyes thereto and momentarily a slight confusion of the mind.

To accomplish my object the essential condition to place the month at the bottom of each leaf, so that it will remain in sight, and the year and days of the week upon the lower edge of a sliding screen, so that as the screen is lowered to cover the preceding week there remains in sight only the unexpired days of the month in relation to the days of the week in their proper position. Thus the screen being adjusted, say, on Monday, the calendar is in condition for ready reference thereto for the whole week.

The device being especially adapted to the cheap variety of calendars, it is believed that it will fill a want in the offices of business men, where accuracy and quick work are desired, giving the most and best work with the least amount of machinery. Its advantages over any device, merely pointing to a single day in the month, and which requires a change to be made daily, are apparent at once aside from the considerations mentioned above, and especially the barring out and condensation shown.

The action may be reversed, a movable calendar sliding up behind a fixed screen; but the preferred method is the arrangement shown in the drawings, consist-ing (Figure 1) of the upright stifif back A, the screen 15, and the calendar C.

Corresponding parts iuthe several figures are denoted by like letters of reference.

Fig. 1 is a back view of the parts in position, in which the calendar C shown to be attached at a to the piece A, and the piece A is made to pass through the opening made in the piece B by displacing the strap I) cut therein. Figs. 2 and 3 are face views of the same parts, representing different heights of the screen 13 in the two figures. Fig. 2 shows the screen lowered to cover, for example, all the days of the month preceding the current fourth week, while Fig. 3 shows the screen raised entirely above the calendar proper.

The piece A held rigid in one hand, (or its equivalent, hung on a nail, &c..,) while with the other hand the screen is lowered or raised by slidin upon the piece A, and then retained in its relative position both by gravity and the spring-like pressure of the strap Z) against the piece A.

The materials used may be of metal, wood, paper, &c., with the letters and figures printed or otherwise made.

This construction allows the lower edge, (I, of the movable screen to be adjusted to either (week) row of figures on the face of the calendar as the weeks expire, Fig. 2; also, the whole leaf to be torn away, Fig. 3, exposing the succeeding month. The adjustment of the screen maybe facilitated and the number of the week made prominent by causing the piece A, Fig. 2, to bear the numbers, and isolating each in order, as shown at 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination of the calendar C, having the month 0, with the fixed piece A at the point a, and with the adjustable piece=l3,l1av ing the year and days of the week (I, and the strap 1), arranged anc'toperating substantially In testimony whereof I affix my signature in IO as and for the purpose set forth. 5 presence of two Witnesses.

2. The adjustable screen 13, havin g the strap 1), and made to slide upon the piece A to a 're- EDXVARD S. MAY. 5 quired point, the numerals 1 2 3 4- 5, placed vertically upon the piece A and appearing; itnesses: singly through the opening in B, as at 9, ar- H. A. MUNSON, ranged and operating with a calendar, sub- JAS. N. FITZPATRICK.

stantially as and for the purpose set forth. 

